Quotes About Self-doubt

I'm insecure about things. I'm not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, 'Go on the red carpet,' I don't wanna go.

I was so terrified for so long about what people think about my sexuality, and I didn't wanna find myself in a position where I was losing my fans and couldn't do my job.

When someone gets passed that mic, and they know deep down inside that they wanna say something or sing something or produce something, but they don't do that, it's like killing your musical life.

You don't wanna see your work, because you might find out that you do not like it.

Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a blank sheet of paper. I was always trying to second-guess myself, to be what others wanted me to be.

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood.

So many people were ready to write me off as being washed up at 20, I started to believe all that negative stuff myself.

I took a break, stretched, tried again, failed, kicked over the music stand (I am not proud of that), and wonder whether I had reached the limits of my musical ability. Maybe I'd never had any. Surely someone with a modicum of talent wouldn't have to work this hard.

I looked in the mirror again. I wasn't even sure I could get the cap on over the fluff. "Maybe we went a little overboard." "Trust me. We didn't." I wasn't so sure, though, when we walked into the kitchen where Dad was giving Jason pointers on driving in the rain, as though Raglan offered challenges he might never have encountered before.

I wish I was perfect as you think I am. I wish I were good. I'm not. I want to be good enough. For you,

I'm no good. I'm telling you I'm crazy. Nothing in my life will ever be what you deserve. I internalize everything, and don't tell anyone how I feel. I'm reckless where others are careful. I'm also completely at a loss. I have no idea how to keep what I want most," he says. He didn't use the word "fuck" once. He's honestly telling me how he feels. "You.

Anytime someone is afraid but plows forward anyway, that's the very definition of courage." "It's hard to tell myself that in the midst of crippling self-doubt." "That's when you should believe it most of all.

I used to wonder what I was doing wrong. Now I know: just about everything.

It's because we have little faith that we look within instead of without.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.

It is always difficult for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend, but because their poems are bad.

I regret the passing of the studio system," Lucille Ball once said. "I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. Believe me. What could I do? I couldn't dance. I couldn't sing. I could talk. I could barely walk. I had no flair. I wasn't a beauty, that's for sure.

There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was someone telling people that I was writer. But I was not writing.

I didn't think I was right for 'Cabaret'.

Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.